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- Kye Lewis is being sentenced for raping a woman twice on the top of his car bonnet in a cemetery in 2017.
- The sentence comes more than four months after he was convicted by a jury in August last year.
- Our reporter Ellis Whitehouse is providing live updates from Basildon Crown Court.
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